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en-usMedical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine.Gene helps prevent heart attack, stroke—and may offer way to block effects of agingA gene that scientific dogma insists is inactive in adults actually plays a vital role in preventing the underlying cause of most heart attacks and strokes, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have determined. The discovery opens a new avenue for battling those deadly conditions, and it raises the tantalizing prospect that doctors could use the gene to prevent or delay at least some of the effects of aging.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-05-gene-heart-strokeand-block-effects.html
GeneticsTue, 17 May 2016 09:40:03 ESTnews382696794Is the first commercial gene therapy product within sight?Highly anticipated phase III clinical trial results of Spark Therapeutics's gene therapy to treat visual impairment are due by year-end and could have profound implications for the broader gene therapy field, leading to the first approved product in the U.S. A detailed analysis of the design and use of SPK-RPE65 to treat Leber congenital amaurosis type 2 (LCA2), the possibility of expanding its use to other patient populations, and the anticipated impact of a first commercial gene therapy product is explored in Human Gene Therapy Clinical Development.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-10-commercial-gene-therapy-product-sight.html
GeneticsThu, 15 Oct 2015 12:07:58 ESTnews364129672Hospital admissions strongly linked to disability for older adults in last year of lifeYale researchers found a close association between acute hospitalizations and the development and progression of disability among older adults at the end of life. Their findings may have profound implications for medical decision-making for older people and those who care for them.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-05-hospital-admissions-strongly-linked-disability.html
HealthWed, 20 May 2015 10:31:47 ESTnews351336675Stress, anxiety and depression among custodial grandparentsNew research published in Journal of Family Studies this month reveals that grandparents who care for grandchildren with abnormal emotional and hyperactive symptoms are more likely to experience lower levels of life satisfaction.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-03-stress-anxiety-depression-custodial-grandparents.html
Psychology & PsychiatryThu, 19 Mar 2015 06:50:01 ESTnews345965277Healthy tissue grafted to the brains of Huntington's patients also develops the diseaseA recent study published in Annals of Neurology reports that healthy human tissue grafted to the brains of patients with Huntington's disease in the hopes of treating the neurological disorder also developed signs of the illness, several years after the graft. This discovery will have profound implications on our understanding of the disease and how to treat it, and may also lead to the development of new therapies for neurodegenerative disorders.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-06-healthy-tissue-grafted-brains-huntington.html
NeuroscienceThu, 05 Jun 2014 09:50:02 ESTnews321179521Researchers find hand to mouth movement in humans likely hard-wired(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers in France has found evidence that suggests that human hand-to-mouth actions are hard-wired into the brain. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers describe an experiment they conducted on adults undergoing brain surgery and why what they found could have profound implications on human brain development theories.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-04-mouth-movement-humans-hard-wired.html
NeuroscienceTue, 01 Apr 2014 10:30:02 ESTnews315563898New study suggests chronic cocaine use causes profound metabolic changes, reducing the body's ability to store fatChronic cocaine use may reduce the body's ability to store fat, new research from the University of Cambridge suggests.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-08-chronic-cocaine-profound-metabolic-body.html
Medical researchFri, 09 Aug 2013 12:54:38 ESTnews295271665Research shows genetic evidence that new therapies targeting Parkinson's disease may cause harm(Medical Xpress)—NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore) and Mayo Clinic researchers have partnered on a study that shows genetic and clinical evidence that therapies targeting the expression of alpha-synuclein—a gene whose function is involved in the development and progression of Parkinson's disease—may accelerate disease progression and increase the risk of physical incapacitation and dementia. If replicated, the findings will have profound implications for therapies under development for Parkinson's disease.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-genetic-evidence-therapies-parkinson-disease.html
Parkinson's & Movement disordersThu, 21 Mar 2013 09:20:06 ESTnews283076397Increasing poverty in older age will lead to adverse health outcomes, researchers warnMany people will be much poorer than they had expected in their older age and this has profound implications for the health of our ageing population claims an editorial published today in Age & Ageing, the scientific journal of the British Geriatrics Society.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-poverty-older-age-adverse-health.html
HealthFri, 30 Nov 2012 10:33:00 ESTnews273493894Skin cells reveal DNA's genetic mosaic(Medical Xpress)—The prevailing wisdom has been that every cell in the body contains identical DNA. However, a new study of stem cells derived from the skin has found that genetic variations are widespread in the body's tissues, a finding with profound implications for genetic screening, according to Yale School of Medicine researchers.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-skin-cells-reveal-dna-genetic.html
GeneticsMon, 19 Nov 2012 09:15:14 ESTnews272538907Lessons learned from the 'ethical odyssey' of an HIV trialIn the battle against HIV/AIDS conditions on the frontlines are constantly in flux as treatment, research and policy evolve. The landmark HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 052 study, which established that antiretroviral treatment in people who are HIV positive decreases the likelihood of transmitting HIV to their sexual partners, was no exception. One year after publication the study serves as a case study of ethical challenges faced at every stage of the research trial process in the new paper "Establishing HIV treatment as prevention in the HIV Prevention Trials Network 052 randomized trial: an ethical odyssey," published in the June 2012 issue of Clinical Trials.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-lessons-ethical-odyssey-hiv-trial.html
HIV & AIDSThu, 14 Jun 2012 12:02:03 ESTnews258894113Foods rich in protein, dairy products help dieters preserve muscle and lose belly fat: studyNew research suggests a higher-protein, lower-carbohydrate energy-restricted diet has a major positive impact on body composition, trimming belly fat and increasing lean muscle, particularly when the proteins come from dairy products.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-foods-rich-protein-dairy-products.html
HealthMon, 29 Aug 2011 10:06:16 ESTnews233831123Who's happy? How long we look at happy faces is in our genesThough we all depend on reading people's faces, each of us sees others' faces a bit differently. Some of us may gaze deeply into another's eyes, while others seem more reserved. At one end of this spectrum people with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) look less at other people's faces, and have trouble understanding others people's feelings. New research published in BioMed Central's open-access journal Molecular Autism has found variations of the cannabinoid receptor (CNR1) gene that alter the amount of time people spend looking at happy faces.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-happy-genes.html
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